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''[[Take Over the World|Ves mir ot Evropy k Nyev na vosto-ok]]''<br />
''[[Villain Song|Nad zemlyoi vyezde budut pyet:]]''<br />
''[[The Government|Stolitsa]], [[Vodka Drunkenski|vodka]], [[EverythingsEverything's Worse With Bears|Sovietskiy medved nash!]]''|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQ7hXMLxGc Soviet March]'''}}
 
''[[Red Alert 3]]'' is the third installment of the ''[[Command and Conquer Red Alert|Command And Conquer: Red Alert]]'' series, following an alternate history of the world in which Einstein invents a time machine, travels back, and <s> kills</s> eliminates Hitler, creating a massive war between the Allies and the Soviet Union, which incidentally involves massive amounts of strange technology.
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In this installment, the USSR is at death's door, so General Krukov and Colonel Cherdenko travel back using their own time machine and [[Never Say Die|eliminate]] Einstein after he eliminates Hitler but before he gives the Allies the technological superiority they need to win. They come back and discover that, while they are beating the Allies, the Japanese Empire of the Rising Sun has been created by their tampering and is attacking them. This is where the single player campaigns pick up.
 
If you thought ''that'' sounded silly, well...[[Camp|it is]]. This game is to [[Real Time Strategy]] what [[Batman (TV)|the 1960s version of]] ''[[Batman (TV)|Batman]]'' was to television. The whole game operates on little more than [[Rule of Cool]] and occasionally [[Rule of Funny]] rather than any kind of real sense. This is ''not'' your daddy's RTS. It is your jokester uncle's, and it's all the more awesome for it. It's likely this factor that convinced a large number of [[Hey ItsIt's That Guy|TV and movie name actors]] to join the cast for the ([[Ham and Cheese|often hilariously over-the-top]]) [[Cutscene|Cut Scenes]].
 
'''Please note that this page is for tropes specific to this game. Please add tropes relating to multiple games to the [[Command and Conquer Red Alert Series (Video Game)|Red Alert series]] page.'''
 
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* [[The Ace]]: Giles and Zhana, and in Uprising Vera and Takara.
* [[Action Girl]]: Tanya for the Allies and Natasha for the Russians. They can one-shot any infantry, snipe out vehicle pilots, and call in airstrikes. The Empire equivalent, Yuriko Omega, is a [[Little Miss Badass]].
** A good rule of thumbs is: If it's female, it's about 5 times as good as anything else in it's category. (See: Rocket angels, Archer maidens and MiGs.)
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Tanya is blonde in this game, as opposed to her appearance as a brunette in previous games. A prime reason for the [[Fan Dumb]] to cry [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]].
* [[AKA 47]]: "ADK-45" among others
** That makes sense, though; in this time line, maybe Mikhail Kalashnikov didn't invent it in 1947.
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* [[BFG]]: Several. The Allied Proton Collider is probably the biggest.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Yuriko's name is Japanese for "daughter of Yuri" (Or "lily child").
* [[Black and Grey Morality]] (possibly [[Evil vs. Evil]]): Yes, it remains the tradition of the Red Alert series to portray [[Designated Hero|the Allies]], backed by the mighty USA, as good, and [[Card -Carrying Villain|The Soviet Union and Japan]] as evil. However, even the Allies have a shade of grey morality in truth, given that they heavily use propaganda that demonize the other two sides and that the main characters have an antipathic attitude toward whoever is not with them, no matter the reasons; also, the [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] counts as well.
** The Yuriko and Soviet campaigns in Uprising also further reveal the evil side of the Allies: the [[Mega Corp|FutureTech]] corporation, which supplies the Allies' high-tech weapons:
{{quote| Yuriko: Wait! So most of these guys are just Future Techs' hired guns!? The Allies are just buying their military muscle now!?!?}}
* [[Bland -Name Product]]: The MiG aircraft in the game is called "Mikevich-Guroyan", instead of the real life "Mikoyan-Gurevich".
* [[Breath Weapon]]: The Giga Fortress uses this in air mode.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: The Soviet Hammer Tank instructor in ''Red Alert 3'', during the tutorial. He is the one who is shot at the most by the other instructors (Allied Guardian Tank and Rising Sun Tsunami Tank) in annoyance for dumb questions, getting on their nerves, etc. Also, it's usually the Soviet army that the Tsunami Tank's "training robots" are modeled after. In the last tutorial mission, however, {{spoiler|he causes a [[Funny Background Event]] where he slinks away and comes back as an ''Apocalypse Tank'', causing the Tsunami Tank, his main bully, to do a [[Double Take]].}}
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* [[Colonel Badass]]: Warren was once captured by the Soviets, but managed to fight his way out with his bare hands.
* [[Colony Drop]]: The Soviets drop [[Death From Above|old satellites from orbit]] as a form of attack. Lowest level drops Sputniks, the highest level drops the MIR space station.
* [[Composite Character]]: Yuriko's backstory is very similar to [[Elfen Lied|Lucy's]], has the powers and [[Ax Crazy|sanity]] that channels [[Akira (Manga)|Tetsuo]] and has a similar sounding name to [[Command and Conquer Red Alert|Yuri]], another psychic gone rogue (although Yuriko is definitely [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|not outright evil]]).
** J.K. Simmons claims in an interview that President Ackerman has "facets of [[George C Scott]] in [[Dr. Strangelove]]"; a "little bit of [[Barry Goldwater]]" and "at least a tiny bit of [[George W Bush|Dubya]] creeping in there."
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Rupert Thornley, and Kelly Weaver in Uprising.
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* [[Enemy Mine]]: During the Allied campaign, you will join forces with the Soviets against the Empire for two missions. In the Empire Campaign, the Allies and Soviets join forces ''against you''.
* [[The Empire]]: Of the Rising Sun.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Samurai]]: In ''Red Alert 3'', the Imperial Warrior uniforms resembles Samurai outfits, they also carry [[Laser Blade|Beam]] [[Katanas Are Just Better|Katanas]] as secondary weapons that can score a [[One -Hit Kill]] on enemy infantry but can't hurt vehicles.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Even Worse With Sharks]]: Invoked by the Soviet Akula attack sub. Whether or not his is the case depends on how savvy the player using them is, however.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Worse With Bears]]:
** The Soviets have Attack Bears. They go down in a few hits, but can instantly kill any infantry in close combat and disable them with roars.
** In Challenge mode there's the Ursa Major. A bear the size of an Apocalypse Tank that can maul buildings to death, and is best taken out by bomber planes.
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** This includes the aforementioned War Bears, as well as the creepy tank eating Terror Drones.
* [[Freeze Ray]]: The Allies specialize in this kind of technology.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: From the Allied spectrum technology to most of the Rising Sun's weaponry.
** [[All There in the Manual|The game's website, which contains details that didn't appear in the actual game,]] reveals that the Empire's supposed "beam weapons" are actually railguns of some sort, firing tiny metallic projectiles accelerated to compensate for the small mass.
* [[Funny Background Event]]:
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{{quote| Tanya: Bears in the water? Hmm... They're so cute - when they're dead!}}
:: Remember, this is the same person who had an [[Evil Laugh]] in the previous game...
* [[Historical in In-Joke]]: One of the Empire's missions is protecting Hawaii (Pearl Harbor, specifically) from an imminent Allied invasion.
* [[Historical Villain Downgrade]]: Imperial Japan is depicted as arrogant and invasion-happy, but on the whole aren't nearly as bad as they were during [[World War II]]. The reasons for this might be many and varied; a less hostile takeover of Asia, more modern thinking, and so on, but it's more likely that the developers were simply more concerned with making them fit with the popular image of Imperial Japan.
** There are hints that they're just as bad, but it's mostly left up to [[Fridge Horror]]. Certain comments made during the invasion of Vorkuta make you wonder [[Inferred Holocaust|what's happening to the civilians]]. And then there's the research lab in ''Uprising'', which appears to have been inspired by ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' and ''[[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]'', and the [[And I Must Scream|Steel Ronin]]...
** Yet another possibility is that the Empire never went downhill and thus stayed in its real-life pre-fascist state, when it was generally considered to be honourable and progressive (unless you were Chinese or Korean, of course). This is fairly likely due to the apparent lack of any fascist government or policy of genocide. They're certainly [[Grey and Gray Morality|no less villainous or no more heroic than the Soviets or Allies]], who both have some nasty skeletons in their respective closets.
* [[HitlersHitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]]: The entire series averts this totally. Hitler is eliminated from time by Einstein. Einstein himself seems to have gotten a Time Travel exemption though; eliminating him did ''not'' prevent the Allies from developing the Chronosphere teleportation device, among other things, though they're still worse off than they were before Cherdenko erased Einstein.
** Perhaps the penultimate reason to ensure Hitler's Exemption Act.
* [[Human Cannonball]]: The only way out of the Bullfrog. Though potrayed more realistically since the infantry descends with parachutes after being fired from the cannon. Other than people, it can also fire bears and terror drones for extra fun.
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Mortar Cycle.
* [[Instant Awesome Just Add Mecha]]: Pretty much the major backbone of the Empire of the Rising Sun in ''Red Alert 3''. And it throws in...
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]] for good measure.
* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] as one of three conclusions.
* [[Jet Pack]]: The Empire of the Rising Sun's Rocket Angels.
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* [[Lightning Gun]]: Take a wild guess...
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Yuriko Omega.
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: Peacekeepers' special ability will prevent them from getting 1-hit killed by ninjas and Tesla troopers.
* [[Lzherusskie]]: Most of the Soviet cast, except Oleg.
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: Rocket Angels en masse can produce this. There is even an upgrade to make missile-firing units spam even more. The Naginata cruisers fires many torpedoes at once in their special attack. The Allies' javelin soldiers also have this as their special attack.
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* [[Mega Corp]]: Future Tech.
* [[Meganekko]]: Lydia in Uprising, Vera even called her [[Hot Librarian|'Librarian']]
* [[MesMe's a Crowd]]: Clones of Yuriko are used to fuel to Rising Sun's superweapon, the Psionic Decimator. Also, if you are facing multiple Rising Sun commanders in a mission, expect to see a handful of Yurikos.
* [[Military Mashup Machine]]: Too many to list, but most belong to the Empire.
* [[Mind Over Matter]]: Yuriko's standard attack, which absolutely devastates most enemies one at a time. Ground units get thrown in the air as they take damage over time and air units simply crash to the ground.
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* [[Molotov Cocktail]]: Used/Consumed (though you may argue it is Vodka) by Conscripts and Mortar Cycles.
* [[Mother Russia Makes You Strong]]: According to Natasha at least.
* [[NamesName's the Same]]: Nikolai (Krukov and Moskvin)
** Players unfamiliar with the game may get a bit of nostalgia when they first hear of the name "General Krukov", which is one letter away from the famous traitor "Kukov" from RA1. {{spoiler|Turns it out may have been intentional, as guess who betrays you about halfway through the Soviet Campaign?}}
* [[Near Victory Fanfare]]: done with [[The Power of Rock|Rock Music]].
* [[Non Entity General]]: [[Lampshaded]] in ''Red Alert 3'', where near the end of the end of the Soviet campaign, a Conscript suggests that due to your success in taking it, {{spoiler|New York City}} will be renamed "Commandersgrad" implying the non-entity-commander is actually ''named'' "Commander".
* [[Now What?]]: {{spoiler|Yuriko's campaign ends this way, after she achieves her revenge. The last shot is her standing on a hillside, pondering what to do.}}
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: In Japanese and Russian though
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: President Ackerman, whose campaign slogan is literally "Screw 'Em All!"
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** It's explained in the opening that since the Soviets eliminated Einstein in the past, nuclear technology no longer exists. Yet when the Soviet Super Reactor building is destroyed...
** The [[All There in the Manual|residue from which]] is used in their [[Nightmare Fuel|Desolator]] [[Hollywood Acid|weaponry]].
* [[Rushmore Refacement]]: Looks almost identical to what the aliens did in ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)]]''.
* [[Selective Magnetism]]: The Soviets are using various magnetic weapons: from magnetic harpoons to magnetic weapons that strip armor and weapons off enemy vehicles to magnets that suck units into SPACE.
* [[Sequel Hook]] / [[The Stinger]]: {{spoiler|The Allies just ''might'' have used a time machine at the end of the Empire campaign}}.
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* [[Shaped Like Itself]]
{{quote| '''Peacekeeper''': "Peacekeeper, keeping the peace."}}
* [[Shout Out]]: The Empire by itself is an incarnation of many things people love about Japan, both real and fictional. Cryo Legionnaire is a pun of Chrono Legionnaires in ''Red Alert 2'' and also a shout out to Mr Freeze with many of the voiceovers are Mr Freeze's lines("Let's kick some ice!", "Cool Party", and "The Iceman Comenth"). The weaponized Mt Rushmore looks almost exactly like the aliens' modification in [[Mars Attacks (Film)]] (without the weapons). Of course the spy is an obvious [[Shout Out]] to [[James Bond]].
** The first chapter of Yuriko's story in ''Uprising'' features a psychic Japanese girl breaking out of her restraints in a secret facility and ripping apart guards in huge, bloody explosions. [[Elfen Lied|Sound familiar?]]
*** Yuriko's name can mean "daughter of Yuri", the renegade psychic from Red Alert 2.
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** The special unit equivalent to Boris from ''Red Alert 2''? [[Rocky and Bullwinkle|Natasha]].
** A [[British Stuffiness|British commander]] called [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Giles]] [[Angel (TV)|Price]]
** The Proton Collider superweapon is a [[Stealth Pun|clever crack]] at the LHC. And just in case you didn't [[Viewers Areare Morons|get it the first time]], the Sigma Harmonizer from ''Uprising'' is a giant particle accelerator with a similar configuration to the LHC, complete with (justified, in this case) [[Hollywood Science|public concerns]] over its actual function.
** The King Oni resembles a cross between Ironman and a Gundam. Further driving the point home, the Emperor has the original prototype, which is red with gold accents (which are normally white, but are gold colored due to the Empire's canonical faction color). You even see him in a Ironman-like interface as he [[Tempting Fate|declares your imminent doom]].
* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: Played straight with Allies' Peacekeepers, not only they are the strongest of the basic rifleman unit, they can knockdown even ninjas and commandos who gets too close, and with proper micromanagement can lock them in a [[Cycle of Hurting]].
* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: ''Waaaay'' on the silly end. [[Laser Blade|Beam Katanas]]? [[EverythingsEverything's Worse With Bears|Bears]]? ''[[Tim Curry]]''?
** However, the Yuriko and Soviet campaigns in ''Uprising'' are more on the serious side.
* [[Sore Loser]]: Most of the AI commanders take losing fairly well, and some will even show you respect, but Kenji and Moskvin... well...
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* [[Super Prototype]]: The prototype King Oni is faster, stronger, nigh indestructible and equipped with a absolutely devastating anti-aircraft rocket battery. {{spoiler|And it's piloted by George Takei.}}
** The Reapers from ''Uprising'' are a heavier prototype of the Sickle. So heavy, in fact, that their [[Reality Ensues|legs break beneath]] them if they jump.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: In the midst of the game's [[Camp|campy-ness]], Yuriko is this trope incarnate. Prior to the game, she was allegedly taken from her parents by the Empire, where she then went through god knows how many horrific experiments in Dr Shiro Shimada's Omega program. Then came the start of her campaign...and it all ends after she {{spoiler|made meat puree out of [[Kill 'Em All|everything]] that [[Too Dumb to Live|stood in her way]], killed both Shimada and her alleged sister Izumi (the former out of revenge and the latter out of self-defense) and she has now has no idea what to do.}} And her theme song is pretty tear jerking...
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: The enemies can repair buildings faster than you and see though the fog of war.
* [[Theme Music Power -Up]]: the background music changes to faster and harder tunes when the player's units are engaging enemy units. And an annoying version of the enemy's theme if they fire a superweapon at you.
* [[Time Stands Still]]: The Sigma Harmonizer in the last Uprising soviet mission, it is in the mission title too.
* [[Tragic Villain]] / [[Tragic Monster]]: Poor Yuriko... After suffering all the tragedies in her youth {{spoiler|and ending up having to kill her own alleged sister who turns against her after being saved}}, she is still the same lonely, unloved girl...
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** {{spoiler|Premier Cherdenko}} in the [[Collapsing Lair]] after trying to pull off [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]] on you.
** Similarly in Empire campaign
{{quote| '''Cherdenko:''' No! [[This Cannot Be!|this can't be happening]]! I am the Premier! I CONTROL TIME!}}
** Rupert Thornley pulled an epic one in ''Uprising'' after you destroy the Sigma Harmonizer, [[Big No]] included.
{{quote| '''Thornley:'''[[Big No|Noooo!]] What have you done, you idiots! I could have created heaven on earth here, and now, NOW, I have nothing.}}
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* [[Weaponized Landmark]]: The [[Trope Namer]]. Moais with Tesla coils in them, The Griffith Observatory with a huge cannon rigged into it, Mt Rushmore have weapons in the heads, and of course the Leningrad memorial with a space rocket.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Rocket Angels use laser whips to paralyse ground troops.
* [[Whole -Plot Reference]]: The first chapter of Yuriko's story features a psychic Japanese girl breaking out of her restraints in a secret facility and ripping apart guards in huge, bloody explosions. [[Elfen Lied|Sound familiar?]]
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Played straight with {{spoiler|Izumi}}. Ironically subverted with {{spoiler|Yuriko}}.
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Natasha might lament not having little children to kill.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Yuriko in ''Uprising''. Just play her campaign. {{spoiler|The most heartwrenching part is that she has no idea what to do or where to go after having had her revenge.}}
* [[You Are in Command Now]]: Oleg in ''Uprising'', apparently.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: What can you expect of [[Tim Curry]]?
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